Investigated early detection of Alzheimers.
Found that individuals who showed early signs of reduced metabolism in the hippocampus were associated with later development of Alzheimer's disease.
Who is Mosconi (2005)?
100
Brown and Kullik (1977)
Who did the flashbulb memory study?
100
Mental plans of action. They serve as frameworks through which we view the world.
What are schemas?
100
Play an important role in emotional experience and behavior. It contains many bran structures, including the hypothalamus, hippocampus and amygdala.
What is the limbic system?
200
Investigated the effect of age of witness and age of suspect on eyewitness.
Found that child witnesses had a higher rate of choosing the correct crook than adult witnesses.
Who is Parker and Carranza (2005)?
200
Atkinson and Shiffrin
Who created the model of MSN?
200
Subjects tend to recall the first words of the list well, which indicates that the first words entered short-term memory and had time to ne rehearsed and passed on to long-term memory before the STM capacity was reached.
What is the primacy effect?
200
Refers to vivid and detailed memories of highly emotional events that appear to be recorded in the brain as through with the help of a camera's flash.
What is the flashbulb memory?
300
Investigated the effect of leading questions on the accuracy of speed estimates in and perceived consequences of a crash.
People are systematically ad significantly affected by the wording of a question.
What is Loftus and Palmer (1974)?
300
Craik and Lokhart
Who did LOP?
300
This describes memory as a function of the depth of mental processing.
What is levels of processing?
300
Harris found that over 60% of subjects would infer information not present in testimony based in their expectations.
What is the inference theory?
400
Investigated how memory transforms itself in the direction of accepted schemas and expectation.
Found that people reconstructed the story (war of the ghosts) based on their own cultural backgrounds.
Who is Bartlett (1932)?
400
This can be affected by prejudice, inferences, expectations, stereotypes and face recognition.
What is Reconstructive memories?
400
Describes the greater recall capacity for a particular stimulus if it is related semantically to the person.
What is the self-reference effect?
500
Wanted to see which schema they were most influenced by when they recalled the information either the one at the encoding stage or the one at the retrieval stage. (Burgulars and home buyers)
Who is Anderson and Pichert (1978)?
500
Cole and Scribner (1974)?
Who did effect of formal schooling and memory storage?
500
A scanning method that can measure glucose consumption and blood flow.
What is a PET scan?
500
Provides a three-dimensional picture of brain structures. Detects changes in the use of oxygen in the blood.